Scope and Contents note From the Series: Contains primarily incoming correspondence received while Babcock served as private secretary to President Grant, with a large portion of the letters concerning Grant’s attempted annexation of Santo Domingo and Babcock’s Whiskey Ring trial. Many of the letters have a penciled draft of Babcock’s reply on verso. Also contains family correspondence, notably a series of courtship letters from Orville Babcock to Annie Campbell prior to their marriage. Some family correspondence extends beyond...